1. High energy efficiency: the heat transfer coefficient is 3000–4500 kcal/m²·°C·h, 3–5 times higher than the thermal efficiency of shell-and-tube heat exchangers.
2. Compact design: The plates of the heat exchanger are densely arranged, occupying less area and space compared to other types of heat exchangers. With the same area, plate-type heat exchangers have only 1/5 of the heat exchange capacity of shell-and-tube types.
3. Easy to clean and simple to disassemble: the plate heat exchanger is secured with clamping bolts, ensuring convenient assembly and disassembly, the possibility of cleaning at any time, and thanks to the smooth surface of the plates and high turbulence, the likelihood of scale formation is reduced.
4. Long service life: plate heat exchangers are made of stainless steel or titanium plates, resistant to various corrosive environments, gaskets can be easily replaced, and they are convenient to install, dismantle, and maintain.
5. High adaptability: the heat exchange plates are individual elements, and their quantity and configuration can be adjusted according to requirements, enabling the heat exchanger to be used in various technological processes.
6. It prevents liquid leakage; the plate heat exchanger's sealing grooves are equipped with drainage channels, ensuring that different media do not mix, and even in case of a leak, the medium always exits externally.
Areas of application:
Plate heat exchangers are widely used in metallurgy, mining, petroleum, chemical, energy, pharmaceutical, food, chemical fiber, pulp and paper, light industry, shipbuilding, heating, and other industries, and can be used for heating, cooling, evaporation, condensation, sterilization, waste heat recovery, and other tasks.
The use of solar energy: participating in the heat exchange process of heat transfer fluids, such as ethylene glycol, in solar collectors to achieve the goal of utilizing solar energy.
Chemical industry: production of titanium dioxide, alcoholic fermentation, synthesis of ammonia, synthesis of resins, production of rubber, cooling of phosphoric acid, cooling of formaldehyde, alkaline coal industry, electrolytic production of alkali.
Steel industry: quenching oil for tempering, galvanizing cooling fluid, reducer cooling lubricant, rolling mill and drawing machine cooling fluid.
Metallurgical industry: heating and cooling of aluminate mother solution, cooling of sodium aluminate, cooling of lubricating oil for aluminum rolling mills.
Machine building: various quenching cooling fluids, lubricating oils for presses and industrial equipment, oils for engine heating.
Food industry
Control of salt, dairy products, soy sauce, sterilizing vinegar, cooling, heating and cooling of vegetable and animal oils, heating and cooling of beer and wort in beer production, sugar industry, concentration of gelatin, sterilization and cooling, and production of monosodium glutamate.
Textile industry: heat utilization of various waste liquids, cooling of boiling phosphorylated fibers, cooling of viscose solution, cooling of acetic acid and acetic anhydride, cooling of alkaline solution, heating and cooling of viscose silk.
Tractor industry: cooling of black liquor, heating and cooling of salt and alkali for bleaching, thermal recovery of waste from kraft paper production, heating of acid for boiling, cooling of sodium hydroxide aqueous solution, recovery of waste from paper bleaching, condensation of exhaust gases, preheating of concentrated cellulose waste.
Central heating
Heat supply from the waste zone of the thermal power station, heating of the water supply, heat supply from the boiler house zone.
Oil and fat industry: heating and cooling of synthetic detergents, heating of whale oil, cooling of vegetable oil, cooling of sodium hydroxide, cooling of glycerin, emulsified oil.
Electrical power: cooling of generator shaft pumps, cooling of transformer oil.
Ship: diesel engine, central cooler, water cooler with sealing device, piston cooler, lubricating oil cooler, heater, seawater desalination system (including multi-stage and single-stage).
Aquaculture of marine organisms:
The auxiliary boiler for heating seawater in the hatchery has already reduced coal usage, thereby saving energy, protecting the environment, and improving efficiency.
Others: pharmaceuticals, oil, construction ceramics, glass, cement, utilization of geothermal energy, etc.